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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Barrick, Facebook, Halcon, Qualcomm, Synchrony, Texas Instruments and More
April 23, 2015 8:50 am
Last Updated: April 23, 2015 8:54 am
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These are this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations.
Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) was maintained as Neutral or Equal Weight at Barclays.
Angie’s List Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) may have popped up after earnings, but Northland Securities downgraded it to Underperform from Market Perform and cut the price target to $5.50 from $7.25 (versus a $6.46 close).
Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) was started as Neutral at Credit Suisse. Its price target of $13 is slightly higher than the $12.37 closing price.
Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Evercore ISI.
Cognex Corp. (NASDAQ: CGNX) was downgraded to Perform from Outperform at Oppenheimer.
Colony Financial Inc. (NASDAQ: CLNY) was started as Buy with a price target of $29 (versus a $26.23 close) at Goldman Sachs.
Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
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Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was reiterated as Neutral with an $80 fair value target at Janney Capital Markets. Brean Capital reiterated its Buy rating and raised its target to $100 from $96. RBC Capital Markets kept its Outperform rating and raised its target to $105 from $88. Credit Suisse reiterated its Neutral rating and said that its discounted cash flow-based price target was kept at $106.
F5 Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) was raised to Buy from Hold with a price target of $140 (versus a $120.42 close) at Needham.
Halcón Resources Corp. (NYSE: HK) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform and the price target was cut to $1 from $2 (versus a $1.60 close) at R.W. Baird.
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